I too believe the Chat Room is an integral part of the site and is greatly missed. I like the idea of having scheduled Chats for Specified Topics, but having it available 24/7 for spontaneous chats. Many may not be available for scheduled Chats, or find it difficult to follow Chats with a lot of people involved.

As you all will know already, I got so frustrated with the availability of chat that I set up an unofficial chat server to cover the periods when the official one wasn't open. It's been running for about nine months now. I do think that chat is an important part of the site.

If Aneros need any help setting something up, do get in touch. As you seem to have written a bulletin board from scratch, it may not be easy to get something like Blab (which you were using before) to integrate with it like it did with your previous vBulletin (with the identifying marks filed off) system.

Please don't use the link that bsmith provided (it's broken anyway). Please use instead the landing page at http://92.243.6.142/chat.htmlwhich also allows you to see the chat logs and provides a choice of web browser based IRC clients. Mibbit has adverts (they run their own servers); qwebirc is run from my server and has no adverts.